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Third Party Funding in Asia: whose duty to disclose?
Hot on the heels of Singapore’s liberalising third party funding (TPF) for arbitration, Hong Kong followed with similar legislation. Keen to ensure the new regime works, the Singapore Ministry of Law...
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8 Key Points from the ICCA-QM Task Force’s 2018 Third-Party Funding Report
The Task Force’s 2018 Report on Third-Party Funding has finally been released. Here are comments on eight of the most interesting points. Third-party funding involves an entity, with no prior...
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The ‘Professionalization’ of International Arbitrators: What Role for the...
The unique way arbitrators organize and regulate themselves has been increasingly an interest of mine. Being within the world of arbitration it is easy to forget how unique the arbitration ‘market’ and...
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So You Think You Can… Enforce an Arbitral Award in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?
Introduction On 8 October 2018, the Ministry of Justice (the “MoJ”) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“Saudi Arabia”) announced that in the last 12 months its enforcement courts received a...
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Rethinking Counsel Ethics in International Arbitration
Counsel ethics has been a recurring talking point in arbitration circles. Most recently, the topic was raised at the 2018 SIAC Congress, then again by a panel at the 2019 Australian Bar Association...
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The 2020 Vis Moot: Facing Emerging Challenges, While Continuing to Hone Best...
For decades, like clockwork, the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (‘Vis Moot’) and its sister competition, Vis East Moot, have brought together students, academics,...
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International Law Talk Podcast and Arbitration: Does the International...
International Law Talk is a series of podcasts through which Wolters Kluwer provides the latest news and industry insights from thought leaders and experts in the fields of International Arbitration,...
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Back to Basics: Drawing the line between Disclosure, Challenge and...
“To disclose or not to disclose?” no longer seems to be a question for international arbitrators. The narrative and policy space surrounding the independence and impartiality of international...
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The Annulment of Eiser v. Spain: A Call for Improvements to the System?
In 2017 Spain was ordered to pay Eiser €128 million on account of its failure to afford fair and equitable treatment. This award was subsequently annulled because the claimant-appointed arbitrator...
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Counsel Ethics in International Arbitration: The Glass Slipper Still Does Not...
The story of counsel ethics in international arbitration is very much like Cinderella’s fairytale. Once the clock struck midnight, all that remained was her glass slipper. This left the prince to...
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GSI v. Canada: Old Problems and New Take-Aways concerning Counsel Conflicts
Not so long ago, as a lawyer you started your career at the same firm from which you would later retire. Today, the opposite is true. Ambitious young lawyers and sometimes even entire practice groups...
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Arbitration Tech Toolbox: Will ChatGPT Change International Arbitration as We...
International arbitration is a prime example of the power and complexity of combined human minds. It is a marvel of human cooperation and ingenuity that strangers forego barbarism in favour of peaceful...
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Arbitration Tech Toolbox: Let’s Chat Some More about ChatGPT and Dispute...
Introduction ChatGPT is short for “Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer”. It is an artificially intelligent text generation bot that can have a conversation. It does so by using a language...
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Canvassing Views on AI in IA: The Rise of Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in international arbitration for quite some time now. Before the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, there seemed to be an implied consensus that neither soft...
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Tel-Aviv Arbitration Week: Ethics – The Hidden Principle for International...
This post presents some highlights from the workshop titled “Ethics in Arbitration”, as well as relates an important value the authors took away from listening to workshop’s notable speakers, as part...
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Arbitration Tech Toolbox: The Rawlsian ‘Veil of Ignorance’ and Blockchain...
I first discovered the resemblance between the concepts involved in blockchain arbitration and John Rawls’ ‘veil of ignorance’ while conducting research on the metaverse and arbitration. With the...
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New York Arbitration Week 2023 Recap – Highlights from the 18th Annual...
On November 17, 2023, Fordham Law School hosted its annual full-day Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation (“CIAM”), titled “Key Issues in International Dispute Resolution: 2023.” The...
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ICCA Hong Kong 2024: Advocacy, Procedures, and Ethics in Focus
This is the third post in ICCA’s series of reports on the ICCA 2024 Congress (“Congress”), which took place in Hong Kong. This post reports on the events of Tuesday, 7 May 2024, the second full day of...
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LIDW 2024: Lawyer (Mis)Behaviour in International Arbitration
As part of Day 3 of the London International Dispute Week (“LIDW”) 2024, Freeths LLP, Gatehouse Chambers and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb, London branch) organized a panel on “Lawyer...
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SIAC Symposium 2024 Part 2: Shaping the Future of Arbitration
Following the morning session of the SIAC Symposium 2024, which explored issues including the challenges posed by artificial intelligence (“AI”), climate change, and trade disruption (see Part 1), the...
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